The Cleveland Lighthouse is a hexagonal wooden lighthouse about 12m (38ft) tall. It is made of painted weatherboards attached to a timber frame. It has a gallery around the top made of painted iron alloy with glass windows. The top (turret) is capped with a painted iron alloy dome. The light used kerosene until 1934 when it was converted to electricity. The lighthouse was originally on the north east tip of Cleveland Point, about three metres from the concrete light now on the Point. It was moved to its current site in March 1976 when the new concrete light was built. The Lighthouse was built about 1864. It lit the Point until it was replaced in 1975 by the concrete light. In the 1860s, small farming settlements along the south coast of Moreton Bay, including at Cleveland, Victoria Point, Redland Bay and along the Logan and Albert Rivers relied on small ships (coastal steamers) for transport. Travel by ship could be dangerous as the mudflats and sandbanks in Moreton Bay move and there are rocks. The bay is also very tidal, which meant it gets very shallow, especially close to shore.